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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the modern age, scientific advancements made great strides due two what two factors?
(a) Greater social power and individual freedom.
(b) Trust in the future and credit.
(c) Better education and bankers.
(d) The death of religion and economic growth.

2. What must humans do to compete with non-conscious intelligence?
(a) Actively upgrade their minds.
(b) Pursue medical upgrades to be superhuman.
(c) Learn sophisticated algorithms.
(d) Have a computer chip implanted in their brains.

3. Because inventions have many applications, what two disciplines work together to create a balance?
(a) Religion and Technology.
(b) Science and Socialism.
(c) Technology and Humanism.
(d) Religion and Biology.

4. What does Harari claim is necessary for scientific advancements?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Economic growth.
(d) Humanism.

5. What does Harari call the nemesis of the modern economy?
(a) Socialist Humanism.
(b) Unemployment.
(c) Out-dated religious beliefs.
(d) Ecological collapse.

6. How are scientists able to predict a person's desires and decisions?
(a) By determining personality traits.
(b) By using brain scanners.
(c) By learning about a person's past experiences.
(d) By reading facial expressions.

7. What does Harari call "The greatest scientific discovery"?
(a) The discovery of ignorance.
(b) The discovery of new energy sources.
(c) The discovery of germs.
(d) The discovery of cyborg technology.

8. What economic and political system adheres to the principles of a free market?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Authoritarianism.

9. What artificial intelligence success did the computer called Deep Blue achieve?
(a) It beat the world chess champion.
(b) It had the highest score in the world on Pac-Man.
(c) It changed the rules of chess.
(d) It learned to play chess with only verbal instructions.

10. What is the title of Jorge Luis Borges' story about the narrating self?
(a) A Problem.
(b) The Options.
(c) The Quixote Fantasy.
(d) Quixote's Problem.

11. Humans can do whatever they choose and are only constrained by what?
(a) Their understanding of technology.
(b) Their access to education.
(c) Their power in society.
(d) Their own ignorance.

12. What movement changed the formula for gaining knowledge to Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics?
(a) The Free Market.
(b) Economic Growth.
(c) The Scientific Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

13. If we devote ourselves solely to economic growth, what social structure could suffer?
(a) Education.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Family ties.

14. The expression, "The customer is always right" is an example of humanist _____________.
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Economics.
(d) Politics.

15. What false message did Syrian hackers post on the Associated Press's Twitter account?
(a) President Obama was missing after a bombing attempt.
(b) The White House had been attacked and President Obama was hurt.
(c) The White House had been bombed and was on fire.
(d) The White House had been evacuated due to a terrorist threat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has replaced deploying large armies in today's military?

2. The scientific formula led to breakthroughs in disciplines such as astronomy, physics, and medicine, but it could not deal with what issues?

3. Why is research about the healthy mind questionable?

4. According to Harai, where is the most interesting place in the world from a religious standpoint?

5. What does Dataism worship?

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